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Toon Kuppens

@tkupp.bsky.social

Social psychologist, studies education, inequality, work, political attitudes, intergroup relations. @ Groningen

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Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · last yr.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Willem de Koster@willemdekoster.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments) PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian 🗓️ Deadline: June 11 #postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange

Postdoctoral researcher Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes

What does climate change mean to people—and why? And how do these meanings shape public responses to policy and information campaigns?

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Faculteit GMW - University of Groningen@rug-gmw.bsky.social · last yr.

𝐈𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐞? 🤔 Hoogopgeleiden die neerkijken op laagopgeleiden: een helaas veel voorkomend fenomeen dat educationisme heet. Volgens @tkupp.bsky.social “is het schadelijk voor de betrokkenen en voor de samenleving als geheel” Lees hier het artikel 👉🏻 bit.ly/3GxLL3t

Elitisme even bedreigend als populisme

Bij ‘racisme’ of ‘seksisme’ worden mensen beoordeeld op huidskleur of gender en als gevolg daarvan anders en minderwaardig gevonden. Maar er is ook iets...

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Toon Kuppens@tkupp.bsky.social · last yr.

Gutted that my suggested title “if you’re reading this you are probably a hypocrite“ was voted down by my co-authors. Despite this disappointment I am happy with yet another nice paper by @jochemvannoord.eu

Jochem van Noord@jochemvannoord.eu · last yr.

🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :) Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Title page of "Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change Economic Conflict" Abstract: "Belief in meritocracy and social status are central to understanding how people think and behave in relation to economic conflict. In this paper, we investigate how belief in meritocracy is moderated by (subjective) social status for three different aspects of citizens' attitudes towards economic inequality and conflict, namely (1) perceived conflict, (2) anger about economic inequality and (3) intentions to change economic conflict (egalitarianism). Data from the International Social Survey Programme on 29 countries reveal that the effect of meritocracy depends on social status and differs meaningfully across the three attitudes. For people high in social status, belief in meritocracy relates to lower perceptions of conflict, anger, and egalitarianism. For people with a low subjective social status there is no or a weak relation of belief in meritocracy with the outcomes. In addition, when belief in meritocracy was low, those with a high subjective social status appeared to be concerned about inequality as they perceived more economic conflict and felt more anger than those with a low subjective social status. However, this was not the case for intentions to reduce inequality. Hence, these effects of meritocracy and social status should be understood in light of self-interest concerns of social groups, rather than solely ideological domination."